{"id":137248,"date":"2025-09-25T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137248"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:03:38","slug":"ex-fbi-head-james-comey-criminally-charged-as-trump-targets-criticsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137248","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI head James Comey criminally charged as Trump targets criticsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer FBI Director James Comey was indicted on criminal charges of false statements and obstruction on Thursday, a person familiar with the move said, in an escalation of US President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign to seek retribution against people who have investigated or criticised him.<br \/>\nTrump fired Comey in 2017, early in the Republican president\u2019s first term in office. He has since regularly assailed Comey\u2019s handling of the FBI investigation that detailed contacts between Russians and Trump\u2019s 2016&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3326906\/ex-fbi-head-james-comey-criminally-charged-trump-targets-critics?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer FBI Director James Comey was indicted on criminal charges of false statements and obstruction on Thursday, a person familiar with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}